Organisation of the Human Body

Question 1

What are the six levels?

Answer 1

Chemical, cellular, tissue, organ, system, organismal

Question 2

What is chemical organisation?

Answer 2

The building blocks of the body

Question 3

What is cellular organisation?

Answer 3

The basic structural and functional units of the body

Question 4

What is tissue organisation?

Answer 4

Tissues are groups of cells that work together to perform a particular function

Question 5

What are the four classes of tissue?

Answer 5

Epithelial, connective, muscle, and nerve

Question 6

What is organ organisation?

Answer 6

Organs are structures with specific functions composed of two or more types of tissue

Question 7

What is system organisation?

Answer 7

A system consists of related organs with a common function

Question 8

What is organismal organisation?

Answer 8

When all the parts of the body function together to constitute a living organism.

Question 9

What is an example of chemical organisation?

Answer 9

Atoms and these joint to form molecules

Question 10

What is an example of cellular organisation?

Answer 10

Cardiac muscle cells

Question 11

What is an example of tissue organisation?

Answer 11

Cardiac muscle

Question 12

What is an example of organ organisation?

Answer 12

Heart

Question 13

What is an example of system organisation?

Answer 13

Cardiovascular

Question 14

What is an example of organismal organisation?

Answer 14

The individual

Question 15

What does integumentary system do?

Answer 15

Skin

Question 16

What are the three layers the integumentary system?

Answer 16

Epidermis (upper layer), dermis (middle layer), and hypodermis (bottom layer)

Question 17

What does the dermis do?

Answer 17

Feeds the epidermis, lubricates hair shafts and controls sensation

Question 18

What does hypodermis do?

Answer 18

Attaches skin to deeper layers

Question 19

What does the muscular system do?

Answer 19

Provide skeletal movements, provide heat, protect skeleton and protect soft tissue

Question 20

What do axial muscles do?

Answer 20

Provide support and positioning of the axial skeleton

Question 21

What do appendicular muscles do?

Answer 21

Support and move brace limbs

Question 22

What do tendons and aponeuroses do?

Answer 22

Translate contractile forces into motion

Question 23

What is a tendon

Answer 23

Rope like connection between muscle and bone

Question 24

What is an aponeuroses?

Answer 24

A sheet like connection most often muscle to muscle

Question 25

What does the skeletal system compose of?

Answer 25

Bones, cartilage and joints

Question 26

What does the axial skeleton do?

Answer 26

Protects brain and spinal chord, sense organs, and soft tissues. It also supports body weight over lower limbs

Question 27

What does appendicular skeleton do?

Answer 27

Provide internal support and positioning of external limbs

Question 28

What is a ligament?

Answer 28

Bone to bone connection

Question 29

Where are minerals stored?

Answer 29

Bones

Question 30

What is red bone marrow responsible for and where is it found?

Answer 30

Red blood cell production, flat bones.

Question 31

What is yellow bone marrow responsible for and where is it found?

Answer 31

Fat cells, gain with aging and converts from yellow to red after bleeding

Question 32

What does the central nervous system do?

Answer 32

Acts as short term control over other systems

Question 33

What does the brain complex do?

Answer 33

Integrate activities and control voluntary and involuntary activity

Question 34

What does the spinal chord do?

Answer 34

Relays information to and from the brain and performs less complex integrative activities

Question 35

What do special senses do?

Answer 35

Act as a sensory input to the brain relating to sight, hearing, smell, taste and equilibrium

Question 36

What does the peripheral nervous system do?

Answer 36

Links central nervous system with other systems and sensory organs

Question 37

What does the pineal gland do?

Answer 37

Controls day/night rhythmes.

Question 38

What does the hypothalamus do?

Answer 38

Control many other endocrine glands, regulates growth, and balances fluid

Question 39

What does the thyroid gland do?

Answer 39

Control metabolic rate and calcium levels

Question 40

What does the parathyroid gland do?

Answer 40

Controls calcium glands

Question 41

What does the thymus do?

Answer 41

Maturation of lympocytes

Question 42

What do adrenal glands do?

Answer 42

Control water and mineral balance, tissue metabolism, cardio and respiratory function

Question 43

What do the kidneys do?

Answer 43

Control the hormone producing cells controlling red blood cell production, controls blood pressure and calcium levels

Question 44

What do the pancreas do?

Answer 44

Control glucose levels

Question 45

What do gonads do?

Answer 45

Control sexual characteristics and reproduction?

Question 46

What does the heart do?

Answer 46

Propels blood and maintains blood pressure

Question 47

What does the naval cavity do?

Answer 47

Filters warms air and detects smells

Question 48

What does the pharynx do?

Answer 48

Conducts air to larynx

Question 49

What does the larynx do?

Answer 49

Protects opening to trachea and contains vocal chords for vocalisation

Question 50

What does the trachea do?

Answer 50

Conducts air and cartilage keeps it open

Question 51

What does oral cavity do?

Answer 51

Breaks up food

Question 52

What do salivary glands do?

Answer 52

Buffer and lubricate enzymes that begin digestion

Question 53

What does the oesophagus do?

Answer 53

Deliver goods to stomach`

Question 54

What does the stomach do?

Answer 54

Secretes acid, enzymes, and hormones

Question 55

What does the small intestine do?

Answer 55

Contain digestive enzymes, buffers, hormones, and absorbs nutrients

Question 56

What does the liver do?

Answer 56

Excretes bile and regulates nutrients in blood

Question 57

What does the pancreas contain?

Answer 57

Digestive enzymes, buffers, and endocrine cells

Question 58

What does the large intestine do?

Answer 58

Controls water removal and waste storage and removal

Question 59

What do the kidneys do?

Answer 59

Forms and concentrates urine, regules pH and ions, blood volume and blood pressure

Question 60

What does the ureters do?

Answer 60

Conduct urine to bladder

Question 61

What does urethra do?

Answer 61

Conduct urine to exterior

Question 62

What do accessory organs do?

Answer 62

Control sperm maturation

Question 63

What do lymphatic vessels do?

Answer 63

Carry lymph fluid and lymphocytes from peripheral tissues to veins of CV system

Question 64

What is lymphatic fluid?

Answer 64

Fluid from tissues

Question 65

What cells carry out immune responses?

Answer 65

B and T cells